One Year Anniversary~!

Yes, we are still alive.

Now that this important detail has been addressed, let's move on to other matters.

This day last year, we three booketeers decided that we would spend 2013 improving ourselves by reading and reviewing a large collection of classic books. Our goal was 100 books. We completed 1 (and a half). Needless to say, we have decided to set a slightly more attainable goal for 2014 so as not to drown in bitter failure again.

Watch this space for more thought-provoking reviews and entertaining tales of our adventures (and misadventures) through fantasy realms, long-forgotten places and down the hallways of history.

Happy 2014~!

The plot thickens...

We printed out a list of 100 Classic Books - the UK and the US version - courtesy of ever helpful Wikipedia.  We highlighted the ones we've already read. We decided on the 5 titles we’ll attempt first by drawing them out of a box. We created a book club and tried encouraging our co-workers to join. We tried luring them with cross stitched book marks and a chance to cultivate their minds. So far we are the only two members. Some of our friends have told us they’ll like us on FB and follow our blog if we were to set one up, and so here we are. We've finished the first book and hopefully we’ll have more members by the time we’re onto our third book (at least). We’re ever optimistic!

Stay tuned for our upcoming reviews and thoughts on the first book, Jane Austen's Persuasion.

P.S. We have recruited a third member, just in time for the second book: The Count of Monte Cristo.

The lightbulb moment, or have we lost the plot?

In an attempt to broaden our knowledge and open our minds, and ultimately, have the ability to say “yes, we too have read this classic must-read by such-and-such incredible author that you all speak of”, we have taken on the task of reading the classics such as Persuasion by Jane Austen, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray, to name just a few. A year that’s seeing so many epic books hit the big screen: Les Misèrables, The Hobbit, Anna Karenina and The Life of Pi, we got to talking about how some of these widely rejoiced books are easy reads whereas others are a challenge. And although we are avid readers, contemporary fiction is more to our liking, yet somehow or other the conversation led to excitement about these historic novels and we talked ourselves into starting the new year by taking one of Mark Twain’s quotes “Classic - a book which people praise and don’t read” and almost challenging ourselves to do the opposite and read these books that are so often praised.